2019-03: O Rolls Royce de John Lennon

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/john-lennon-rolls-royce-phantom-v

Citando:
"When Lennon, fresh from the band’s chart-topping success in the States, first decided to splash out on the exclusive motor in 1964, he went for a pretty subtle scheme: Valentine Black with black wheels and a black interior. Apparently he wanted a black grille as well, but that was too far for Rolls, even for a Beatle. Perhaps for a Stone they’d have painted it.

Shipped off to celebrated coachbuilder Mulliner Park Ward, the custom job took several months to complete – enough time for Lennon to pass his driving test and the band to release another album. When it was finished in June 1965, it was pretty extravagant."

(...)

"upgrades.

And we’re not talking new alloys. We’re talking a double bed instead of a back seat; a radio telephone that occupied most of the boot; built-in record and tape players; hidden loudspeakers that could startle wildlife and Surrey residents alike. All very rock'n'roll – Keith Richards pulled a similar loudspeaker trick with his Bentley – and, in that finest British tradition, rather cheeky."

2019-03: The red nose Paul McCartney

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvDB28ZnFoc/

And some comments on rehearsals:
https://www.alternativenation.net/paul-mccartney-nose-looks-scary-new-photo/

Citando:
"The most striking moment of the afternoon comes, though, when they rehearse “A Hard Day’s Night.” They breeze through a version of the song, and then McCartney has a question, a surprising one given that he has played this song live in public at least 205 times.20 It is about what happens at the end of the first verse. McCartney, who is playing his famous Höfner bass, wonders whether he is supposed to stay on the G or move up to the D. The band debate it back and forth without coming to a firm conclusion. When McCartney says, “What did I do?” Brian Ray, one of the band’s guitarists, suggests that they listen."

2019-03: Carta de Lennon sobre 2 Virgins vai a leilão

Lennon furioso com o tratamento do álbum com capa "supostamente ofensiva" (como ele próprio diz):
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/john-lennon-letter-yoko-ono-two-virgins-album-apple-emi-record-label-a8822261.html

Citando:
"Addressed to “Martin George of Rock Ink”, the auction house cites “noted Beatles expert” Perry Cox in affirming that the letter was sent to the late Beatles producer George Martin.

However, author Mark Lewisohn told The Times that he believes that Lennon was actually responding to the journalist Martin George, who wrote for “a magazine or a weekly underground newspaper called Ink”.

Referring to his and Ono’s 1968 album Two Virgins, Lennon writes: “Yoko and I got ‘Two Virgins’ out in spite of [which is underlined] being past owners of Apple. We made it in May and they f***ed us about till November! Then E. M. I. (who have the real control) wrote warning letters to all their puppets around the world telling them not handle it in any way (this after Sir Joe [Lockwood, chairman of EMI] had told us face to face that he would do ‘everything he could’ to help us with it – and asking us for autographed copies!!).

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2019-03: John Lennon capa da Uncut

... com realce para o abandono do Rock e o início do investimento nao muito bem compreendido na arte como arte e outros tipos de música (como a improvisada):
https://www.uncut.co.uk/publication/uncut/uncut-april-2019-issue

Quoting:
"John Lennon, Keith Richards, Anne Briggs and Jenny Lewis all appear in the new issue of Uncut, out on February 21.

Lennon is on the cover, and inside we look at his revolutionary, pivotal 1969: from bed-ins and radical, experimental films to free jazz and acorns.

“He never said to me, ‘I’m doing this to blow up The Beatles,’” says one confidant, “but I felt that was what was happening.”

Keith Richards revisits his solo debut Talk Is Cheap, recorded during that long ’80s hiatus when the Stones’ future looked uncertain to many. Not Richards, of course: “I had no doubt the Stones would regroup,” he says. “They’ve got nowhere else to go!”

Uncut also meets the elusive folk singer Anne Briggs for a very rare and frank discussion of her life and talents. “I don’t know who I am, I don’t know what I am,” she tells us, “but I am.”

Jenny Lewis takes us through her finest albums to date, from Rilo Kiley’s debut Take Offs And Landings to her new solo album On The Line, while Edwyn Collins invites us up to his home in the remote north of Scotland to discuss the local herring industry, beachside epiphanies and his new album, Badbea. “It does look back a little more than I’m used to,” admits Collins.

In our An Audience With feature, Robert Forster answers your questions on The Go-Betweens’ legacy, bunking up with The Birthday Party and his close shave with hairdressing.

Steve Marriott’s ex-bandmates reveal the full story of Humble Pie, from the bad decisions to bad behaviour of this heavy ’70s supergroup."

Read more at https://www.uncut.co.uk/publication/uncut/uncut-april-2019-issue#ohQZkCqieg9mhL8O.99

2019-03: Morre baterista Hal Blaine

... que tocou com John Lennon (entre outros):
https://www.jn.pt/cultura/interior/morreu-o-baterista-hal-blaine-tocou-com-sinatra-elvis-e-lennon-10670252.html

Citando:
"O baterista Hal Blaine, membro do grupo de Los Angeles Wrecking Crew e conhecido por tocar em clássicos de Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys e John Lennon, morreu na segunda-feira aos 90 anos, na Califórnia."

2019-02: The football teams!!!

https://www.goal.com/en/news/the-beatles-the-football-teams-paul-mccartney-john-lennon/1lf5q2t2ba4t11uk82qbesxil1

Citando:
""Paul was (and maybe still is) definitely an Evertonian, as was his dad. He attended the 1968 FA Cup final - there is a photo of him outside Wembley," he wrote in the Guardian.

"His brother Mike is a massive Red - and part of his band The Scaffold's promo film for 'Thank You Very Much' was filmed in front of a packed Spion Kop at his behest."

John Lennon wasn't a football fan at all or into sports, according to Beatles historian Ray O'Brien. His dad, however, was a Liverpool supporter and it was on his suggestion that they include former Reds great Albert Stubbins on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper as the only football figure.

Moreover, another ex-Liverpool footballer Sir Matt Busby – who spent five years at Anfield before becoming Manchester United manager –  is name-checked by Lennon on the Beatles’ song "Dig It"."